A live action web-series set in an alternate-universe, contemporary England where every neighbourhood is a fiefdom and every wrong look can end in blood.
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At first glance, the Birmingham in Streets of Myth looks a lot like ours. The buildings look about right. The clothes are the same. The kids listen to hip-hop and hard rock. Birmingham's neighbourhoods are roughly the same too: Aston, Digbeth, Nechells, The Jewellery Quarter & more.
But instead of a city, they are a loose collection of gangs and petty rivalries, tied together and policed by the weakened and corrupt forces of The Crown. These gangs aren't quite like our gangs though. They don't have guns.
They have swords, spears and the ancient martial traditions of the Far East. Each neighbourhood has their own power structure, their own laws and their own fighting style.
The Streets of Myth are a place that lies at the intersection of DJ's and dim-maks, kings and graffiti, B-boys and bloodied swords.
Get the drink of your choice, dim the lights, crank the sound, click over to www.streetsofmyth.com/teaser AND GET MYTHIC!
I can't wait to get started on the next phase of this story, which picks up some time after the little scuffle in the teaser and finds our fair Streets unable to resolve its problems with scuffles anymore...
Looks like I have about 105 hours left to finish this! How many of those hours will be spent asleep? Not many!
A lot of the work now is deciding what information to put around the teaser, rather than finishing off the teaser itself, which is pretty well done.
For instance, how best to explain that we're teasing / promoting a web series that hasn't started yet? Do I put something in the end credits? Or just in the YouTube / Vimeo descriptions? Can I expect people to dig around this website after watching it? Probably not, so I better figure out some clever way of squeezing a lot of extra information into the video itself.
See you Friday...
The first film set in the Streets of Myth universe will make its way to the Internet nine days from now.
We'll be spending those nine days scoring (with original music!), finishing off the colour correction and sound mix and generally dotting every I and crossing every T before hitting the "upload" button with some combination of joy and dread.
Once this goes into the wild, this blog will start looking forward to the series proper, with profiles of the different characters, sample pages of scripts and updates on all things Mythic...
The arms are fair,
When the intent of bearing them is just.
- Henry IV, Part 1 ; Act V, Scene 2
Enjoy our last pre-release pic from the fight scene! You're just going to have to wait for the teaser to get the rest...
One guy spins, one dude rhymes and another does a back flip off the wall. Yup, we're in the Streets of Myth for sure.
We can go toe to toe, blow for blow. I'll take you out, Mad Flow you know I put on a show.
The Streets resident freestyler Mad Flow (@Flow_Mad) nailed it: We put on a show.
It was important to us to make the world of the film bigger than our two main characters and their conflict, so we went out of our way to fill the set with loads of interesting people. We wanted it to feel like we could have followed any one of these characters out of the building and still made a really entertaining film.
I was thinking of it like a hip-hop / kung-fu version of the Mos Eisley cantina .
We put out a call for extras and performers (special thanks to UrbanTrix Academy again!) and the Midlands came out in a big way.
DJ Silence keeps it rockin'
Colosseus defying gravity
The final shot, including a flying Matt Jones.